The Best Underground Games for Linux

Update : Sona-Nyl of the Violet Shadows Refrain added at rank #4.
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The Longing (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch

An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.


  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • walking-simulator
  • underground
  • idler
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn
  • idle
  • real-time
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • exploration
  • book
  • 2d

2

Miska's Cave (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Miska's Cave is a unique action-centric side scroller with strategic components and animated with pixel art. If you love completing challenging games that require varying strategies, this game is for you.

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  • souls
  • underground
  • scroller
  • pve
  • runner
  • action-adventure
  • magic
  • pixel
  • hand-drawn
  • beat-em-up
  • 2d
  • attack
  • score
  • casual

3

Cellar (2016)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Playstation 3 Playstation 4 vita Nintendo Switch

A story-focused game about six strangers stuck together for a month, and a machine that must be kept running.

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  • underground
  • pixel
  • philosophical
  • dark
  • conversation
  • story
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • single-player
  • time-management
  • interactive
  • horror
  • casual
  • short

4

Sona-Nyl of the Violet Shadows Refrain (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The 5th entry in Liarsoft's Steampunk visual novel series is a mysterious fairytale in which fantasy and reality intertwine. The story unfolds from the perspectives of 2 women: one who travels in the ruins of Engine City New York, and one who finds herself in an underground world with a violet sky.

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  • underground
  • steampunk
  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • historical
  • multiple-endings
  • alternate
  • abstract
  • hand-drawn
  • 2d
  • anime
  • cute
  • colourful
  • magic
  • fantasy

5

Dick Ranger (2022)

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Linux PC Windows

Experience an amazing adventure with Dick Ranger, who set off in search of his lost father William, a valued explorer and anthropologist. Travel with the hero through different lands and places.

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  • underground
  • nature
  • scroller
  • 1980s
  • hand-drawn
  • 1990s
  • platform
  • cartoony
  • puzzle
  • old-school
  • 2d
  • relaxing
  • retro
  • family-friendly
  • controller-support

6

War for the Overworld (2015)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Tired of invading dungeons? It's time you built your own! War for the Overworld is a Dungeon Management Game that employs your favourite aspects of the RTS and God Game genres. Carve out your Dungeon and conquer the Overworld!


  • god-game
  • dungeon
  • protagonist
  • comedy
  • underground
  • management
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • editor
  • villain
  • level
  • demons
  • building
  • dungeon-crawler

7

IT Simulator (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

IT Simulator is a co-op horror game where two players attempt to return power to an office building. Take the role of the all-seeing Control Room or the stealthy Repair Technician as you risk everything to d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶u̶t̶h̶ escape.

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  • underground
  • cooperative
  • horror
  • linear
  • lovecraftian
  • stealth
  • pixel
  • campaign
  • online
  • 3d

8

Aground Zero (2023)

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early access PC Windows Linux

The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?

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  • colony
  • underground
  • voxel
  • automation
  • moddable
  • character
  • base-building
  • crafting
  • post-apocalyptic
  • sandbox
  • customization
  • building
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • management

9

R00000 (2023)

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Linux PC Windows

A home brewed 360° interactive horror flick. Witness a troubled soul craving to make a chilling home movie realize that the monster lies a lot deeper than he could have ever guessed. Play the cassette and rewind the terror hidden inside.

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  • horror
  • underground
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • action-adventure
  • psychedelic
  • 3d
  • dungeon
  • abstract
  • mystery
  • exploration
  • old-school
  • first-person

10

The Motorcycle (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Short horror game about motorcycle that is chasing you :)

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  • underground
  • stealth
  • 3d
  • dark
  • horror
  • first-person

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